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Praise for
One Month to Live
Too many people live with regrets, missed opportunities, and dormant dreams. You dont have to be one of them. Your life will be different if you apply the transformational principles in Kerry and Chris Shooks One Month to Live.
C RAIG G ROESCHEL , Founding Pastor of Lifechurch
If you want new urgency, fresh purpose, and a sharper focus for your life, then this book is for you. Read it and your future may be changed forever!
L EE S TROBEL , author of The Case for Christ
One Month to Live by Kerry and Chris Shook will add value to the life of every person who reads it. The questions asked and the Make It Count Moments in this book will stir your soul and inspire you to begin, today, to make the rest of your life more meaningful. What Kerry and Chris present in One Month to Live could be life altering.
K EN B LANCHARD , author of The One Minute Manager
Through the ups and downs, routines and regimens of our daily existence, we can become complacent, even bored, with life. But God never meant for life to be boring. And in One Month to Live, Kerry and Chris Shook remind us of the true depth and meaning that God has in store for each of our lives. No matter where you are in your walk with God, this book will reveal to you a fresh and much-needed perspective. And at the end of this thirty-day journey, you will discover exactly what it means to truly livedailycreativelypassionately!
E D Y OUNG , Senior and Founding Pastor of Fellowship Church
O NE M ONTH TO L IVE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Shook, Kerry, author. | Shook, Chris, author.
Title: One month to live : thirty days to a no-regrets life / Kerry & Chris Shook.
Description: 10th anniversary edition. | Colorado Springs : WaterBrook, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018024362| ISBN 9780307730961 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780307444950 (electronic : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Christian life.
Classification: LCC BV4501.3 .S564 2018 | DDC 248.4dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024362
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For Ryan, Josh, Megan, and Steven
As we have raised you, in many ways you have raised us.
We pray that you will always live with no regrets.
Contents
Foreword
Nothing focuses a persons priorities in life like learning he is about to die. Many of us would suddenly realize we have spent our lives on things that were not very important. So many of us waste our lives with when and then thinking, believing that when this or that happens, then we will really start living and do something for God that really matters.
That approach is guaranteed to leave you with regrets. At the end of your life, the only thing that will matter is whether you accomplished Gods purpose for your life. Jesus was just twelve when He said, I must be about My Fathers business. Just twenty-one years later, He could say to the Father, I have completed the work You gave me to do. If we all had that kind of focus and concentration in our lives, theres no telling what God would accomplish in the world!
The fear of death paralyzes most people, preventing them from taking the risks necessary to fulfill Gods plan for their lives. Kerry and Chris Shook want you to grasp an amazing insight: embracing your mortality sets you free to live a meaningful and satisfying life without regret. As He did with Queen Esther, God put each of us in the world for such a time as this. One Month to Live is a great way to discover the purposeful, joyful, abundant life God created you to enjoy!
Rick Warren
Founding Pastor, Saddleback Church
Author, international bestseller The Purpose-Driven Life
A Note from the Authors
If you only had one month to live, what would you change?
This book is unique in many ways. Foremost, as the title and the question above demonstrate, were not afraid to ask hard questions. As our first book, one we waited more than ten years to write, these pages carry the vital message to which were devotedhow to experience life to the fullest by living passionately and purposefully, the way we were created to live. By embracing the fact that our time on earth is limited, we can live deliberately, no longer postponing the joy and peace that come from fulfilling our God-given destiny. Unless theres nothing you want to change about your life, we look forward to exploring with you what it means to experience the one-month-to-live lifestyle.